Bug #13991 Updated: prepending protocol and hostname to location: headers

ID: 13991 Updated by: derick Reported By: mitja@doticni.net Old Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: any PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: IT would require a whole new parser, just to do this. And it is not really hard to code such a function in PHP itself. Also note that header is meant to set raw HTTP headers, and this would change that behavior. I'm closing this, as I see no use for this, except for a little convenience. Derick Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-11-08 11:40:52] mitja@doticni.net Would it be possible that when issuing header("Location: ...") the protocol and host name would automagically be prepended, if it was missing. Since it's handled specially anyway, it perhaps wouldn't be such a problem? So header("Location: /index.html") would be the same as global $HTTP_HOST, $HTTPS; if ($HTTPS=="on") header("Location: https://$HTTP_HOST/index.html"); else header("Location: http://$HTTP_HOST/index.html"); (in apache anyway) It would mean less typing for the programmer, forced compliance with HTTP/1.1 and it would work for both http:// and https:// which now have to be handled separately. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13991&edit=1